On Saturday the Guardian featured a research project headed by Karma Nabulsi, ‘Teaching Contemporary Palestinian Political History’, which provides teaching and research resources on the subject of the Palestinian national liberation movement and its revolution in the 50s, 60s and 70s, through an open access digital platform in Arabic and English.

Sudhir Hazareesingh has written an article in the Times Literary Supplement (27 May) reviewing books by the historian Pascal Ory and by the former Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, both dealing with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 2015. In this article Sudhir discusses how French progressives should respond to the jihadi threat. The full article can be read here: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/je-suis-le-monde/

On Thursday 19 November 2015 the Bodleian Libraries and the Department of Politics and International Relations are hosting the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Select Committee, chaired by local MP Nicola Blackwood. This special sitting in Oxford will take place as part of Parliament Week 2015, a programme of events and activities coordinated by the House of Commons.

Further to the announcement by Google in April of their Digital News Initiative and the increased support that would involve for the Reuters Institute Digital News Report, Oxford University and Google have now agreed the details of the new grant.